| rdfs:comment | - The Potter Cottage was the home of the Potter family until the final months of the First Wizarding War. It was a deselect little cottage located in the village of Godric's Hollow, housing Fleamont Potter, his wife Euphemia, and their son James. Soon after Fleamont and Euphemia died from Dragon Pox, James and his wife Lily inherited the cottage for their son Harry to spend half of his infancy in it. When the prophecy concerning Harry's defeat of Lord Voldemort was foretold, a Fidelius Charm was placed on the home by Albus Dumbledore when the Dark Lord marked the family for death as a result. While most of the Wizarding community believed that the Potter's planned to make Harry's godfather Sirius Black their Secret-Keeper, they had actually decided at the last minute to take Black's suggesti
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| abstract | - The Potter Cottage was the home of the Potter family until the final months of the First Wizarding War. It was a deselect little cottage located in the village of Godric's Hollow, housing Fleamont Potter, his wife Euphemia, and their son James. Soon after Fleamont and Euphemia died from Dragon Pox, James and his wife Lily inherited the cottage for their son Harry to spend half of his infancy in it. When the prophecy concerning Harry's defeat of Lord Voldemort was foretold, a Fidelius Charm was placed on the home by Albus Dumbledore when the Dark Lord marked the family for death as a result. While most of the Wizarding community believed that the Potter's planned to make Harry's godfather Sirius Black their Secret-Keeper, they had actually decided at the last minute to take Black's suggestion of using him as a decoy to fool Voldemort while another of their close friends, Peter Pettigrew, took the actual Secret-Keeper position instead. However, as Pettigrew happened to be in the Dark Lord's payroll as a spy among the Death Eaters, James and Lily were sold out almost a week after the Fidelius Charm was performed. Thus, on the night of 31 October, 1981, Voldemort showed up to murder them, but was defeated when his Killing Curse for Harry rebounded on him and a large portion of the cottage was destroyed. The cottage has thenceforth been undisturbed and left in its ruined state, and was replaced by Harry and his wife Ginny's house years later.
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